Chapter 110: The Jiangnan Rebellion (14)
The dark night was broken, and Anqing City, which was originally sleeping, was like a red-hot iron pot poured with a scoop of lard, and the whole city began to boil.
Many people climbed up from the quilt, looking at the fire that suddenly became bright in the distance, and their mood was particularly heavy as if they were pressing a big stone. Many children were even more scared and cried.
As early as the first time the bandits attacked, Wang Jinguo had already woken up from his sleep. Without much nonsense, he immediately put on his clothes and took dozens of yamen runners in the yamen to the city wall.
But as soon as he stepped onto the city wall, he was stunned by the scene in front of him. With the help of the light, he saw that countless ragged bandits were surging out of the darkness, holding up all kinds of weapons and even farm tools, and then began to climb towards the city wall along the ladder.
Seeing the ferocious and crazy bandits climbing up the city wall like ants, and then being stabbed by the officers and soldiers on the city wall with bamboo poles, spears and other weapons, Wang Jinguo was a little shocked for a moment.
This was the first time he had never experienced a war, and he realized that appointments in the war were so humble and worthless. People were fighting desperately. Almost all of them never knew each other, but they had to kill each other or be killed by them at the first moment of meeting.
The ground, which was originally paved with blue bricks, became slippery because it had been stained with blood. Wang Jinguo, wearing official boots, just walked on it for a while and then slipped several times. If it weren't for the yamen runners next to him who supported him in time, he would probably have fallen several times.
The yamen team, who had been scared to the point of pale face, said to him in a trembling voice: "Sir, this place is too dangerous, so let the villain send you back to the yamen?"
"Go down!"
Wang Jinguo said with a slutty smile.
"Where can we go? If the bandits attack the city and hide in the yamen, can we avoid death?"
The head of the troop was stunned for a moment, turned his head to look at the bandits under the city wall that were as if they were attacking with chicken blood, and then looked at the city guards who were weak. He sighed helplessly, "Sir, the villain escorts you to the city gate tower to get along with Wang Shoujie, there is at least safer there."
Wang Jinguo did not refuse, and the group rushed to the city gate tower.
When they arrived at the city gate tower, they found that the city gate was already covered with wounded soldiers, and there were wailing sounds everywhere. The only few temporary recruited doctors and apprentices were sweating profusely.
There were dozens of soldiers wearing leather armor resting outside the city gate. Most of them were covered in blood. It was obvious that these people had all gone through a bloody battle. Wang Jinguo immediately recognized these people as servants under Wang Quan.
What surprised Wang Jinguo the most was that even the garrison king Quan was injured and was sitting on a stool and asked a doctor to bandage his arm.
"Wang Shouji, why are you injured?"
Wang Jinguo was shocked when he saw this and quickly walked over and looked him up and down. He found that he was only injured in his arm and everything else was fine. Although Wang Quan's ability seemed not very good, he had been a garrison in Anqing Prefecture for more than 20 years, and almost all his people were from the entire Anqing Prefecture, from soldiers to officers. If he had any accidents, the entire defense of Anqing City might collapse immediately.
"Master, why are you here?"
Wang Quan, who was grinning and making the doctor bandage his wound, was stunned at first when he saw Wang Jinguo's arrival, and then grinned and said, "Don't worry, you just had an arrow injured your arm and it would be healed in a few days. However, the prefect is a parent of the land. If he was injured by the razor on the city wall without authorization, the court would blame the officials for being blamed."
Wang Jinguo shook his head and said, "When is it now? Wang Shoubei, you still say such words. We are now grasshoppers on a rope. You can't run away or jump over me. Just now, I came up and saw the bandits' attack fiercely, but the young and strong soldiers guarding the city retreated without any intention of fighting. If this continues, it is worrying."
"It's more than worrying."
Wang Quan smiled bitterly.
"In just less than an hour, several dangerous situations appeared on the front of the city. If the officials had not taken their servants out to fight several times, the front of the city would have fallen."
"Why is this?" Wang Jinguo was shocked, "Even if the soldiers are not good, there will be no danger on the top of the city, right?"
"Why can't it?" Wang Quan snorted coldly: "There is no military pay, no silver reward, and even the food is full of wild vegetable dumplings. Who will work hard for us? Aren't those people reluctant to pay the money? When the city falls, let them resist the bandits by themselves!"
Wang Jinguo was silent. Wang Quan felt resentful. He didn't know how he knew that the gentry and wealthy families in the city agreed to pay 20,000 taels of silver, but the next day, something happened again. They all said that it would take time to raise the silver. They hoped that the officers and soldiers guarding the city would first defeat the bandits and then give them the silver. Wang Jinguo was so angry that they almost vomited blood. Do these people really think this is a business, and they could not deliver the money and the goods were delivered at the same time.
"Report!"
A blood-covered officer and soldier ran over and said loudly.
"Sir, the bandits' offensive is too urgent, and the west side of the city can't hold on anymore. Mr. Wang asked the villain to tell you, please send reinforcements to reinforce!"
"I know, I will go right away! Damn, I'm not at all." Wang Quan stood up cursingly, picked up the ghost-headed knife placed at his feet and shouted, "Brothers, those who can move, follow me and kill the bandits!"
"Go!"
The servants who were originally lying around, lying or sitting and resting stood up one after another, picked up their weapons and followed the royal family toward the city wall to the west. For a moment, the city gate suddenly became much empty.
"Master, should we go back now?" The squad leader next to him asked carefully.
"That's a big deal!"
Wang Jinguo swears in a rare silence, and he snatches a knife from a yamen runner's hand and says loudly.
"When Wang Shou Ge is gone, we can't watch here. Everyone goes with me to kill the bandits!"
After saying that, Wang Jinguo ran towards the west of the city with his waist knife...
"Kill..."
When Wang Jin Kingdom came to the west of the city, he found that hundreds of bandits had come up on the walls of the west of the city. The original soldiers guarding the city and the young men had either died in battle or had been dispersed. Wang Quan was leading his servants to fight with these bandits.
"No, everyone will follow me to guard the ladder. We must not let the bandits climb the city wall anymore."
Although Wang Jinguo had never fought a war, he knew that if the reinforcements from the bandits came up again, there would be no room for recovery, so he rushed over without saying a word.
When he just ran to the entrance of a cloud ladder, he happened to see a bandit poking his head out of the battlement. He held his waist knife with both hands and chopped it down at the bandit's head without thinking.
Chapter completed!